{"product_id":"9781643756912-and-ill-take-out-your-eyes","title":"And I'll Take Out Your Eyes","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Novel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this captivating, muscular debut, a young queer man struggles to escape his troubled upbringing in Stockton, California, only to find that its echoes haunt him well into adulthood, for readers of Justin Torres's We the Animals, Edgar Gomez's High-Risk Homosexual, and Oscar Hokeah's Calling for a Blanket Dance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCría cuervos y te sacaran los ojos: Raise crows and they will take out your eyes.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA boy wakes up with a knife in his hand. It's the early '90s in Stockton, CA, when Christian is caught sleepwalking in the kitchen by his family-the beginning of a curse unleashed by an aunt. To save Christian and the family from the curse, the family seeks out a curandero who promises salvation, but at a price Christian wishes he didn't have to pay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Christian grows up the curse follows him. His father emotionally and physically torments him, his mother's health spirals, his relationship with his brother deteriorates; nothing goes his way. Christian finds solace in a group of friends, bonded together by the sufferings that plague their community. As the childhood chaos of ripping and running in order to survive breaks way to an adolescence beyond his local neighborhood and a lifeline in the form of writing, Christian must decide: be consumed and enact the same violence that has plagued him, or break the cycle, once and for all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd I'll Take Out Your Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e is a kaleidoscopic exploration of the power of memory and the curses we inherit from our family, and how to overcome them. Told in a voice that is clear and unflinching, this is ultimately a story of redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56396048859510,"sku":"9781643756912","price":22.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_36623532.jpg?v=1760730013","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781643756912-and-ill-take-out-your-eyes","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}